Comments on: Jane Austen and Lena Dunham — sisters under the skin?http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/02/04/jane-austen-and-lena-dunham-sisters-under-the-skin/
Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:26:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0By: Bookworm Room » An unofficial contest: Translating what Lena Dunham was talking abouthttp://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/02/04/jane-austen-and-lena-dunham-sisters-under-the-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-167686
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:19:41 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-167686[...] contest, because there’s no prize beyond the satisfaction of trying to figure out what one of the more talented and morally lacking voices of the young generation meant in a [...]
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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:07:15 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151780This wonderful post prompted me to look for a quote of Brian Williams’, when he was asked what he thought of his daughter in the program. His proud papa statement went something like “her co-creator and I are very proud of her.” I had kept if for a while, to send to my more liberal friends, and I intended to ask them how their dad’s might have felt had they just seen them naked and involved in simulated sex scenes. Though really, what struck me most was that he didn’t say mother, as most normal people would have done. What an odd world some people live in.
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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:19:06 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151757I have no idea why Northanger Abbey doesn’t work for me, but it just doesn’t. Still, I’m content adoring all of Austen’s other books.
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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:17:29 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151754I enjoy all your commentary, but disagree about northfield abbey. I love that book, second only to pride and prejudice.
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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:11:00 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151752If Jane Austen equals Lena Dunham and Tina Fey,
does that mean Victor Hugo equals Barney the Purple Dinosaur?
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:51:15 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151740The fundamental contrast between Jane Austen and Lena Dunham is that Austen used her art to elevate the human condition whereas Dunham, a classic secular humanist lefty, uses her “art” to reduce others to the lowest common denominators of humanity.
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:02:37 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151738Great post. Also was an Austen fan long before the current trend.
But I do think there was a little pity for Wickham at the end. Just a little.
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:43:18 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151737Because Austen often subverted popular mores that she found smug, cruel, or silly, Hollywood likes to take her up as a rebellious heroine. Lately that extends even to rewriting her stories as if she would have subverted her real principles in the same way; Hollywood has a hard time imagining there are any such things, unless they have to do with social justice or cruelty to animals.
The 1990s-era Sense and Sensibility was a welcome exception. The changes adapted the story to a movie form without undermining the source.
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:38:13 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151736This is a great commentary on the anti-intellectualism rampant in media and punditry. To compare classical moralists with the anything-goes social leaders we see today is to completely disregard the religious heritage of the west and the reverence for social norms that came through an ecclesiastical outlook. I apologize that I cannot spend more time to write a proper reply, but I certainly appreciate you calling the situation out for what it is. Looking forward to your next column, Bookworm.
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:25:23 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26499#comment-151734Not just no, but h*ll no! I appreciate Schlitchter’s desire for conservatives to engage in popular culture, but Girls is painful to watch (I tried during a recent free HBO weekend). There are absolutely no similarities between the self-absorbed and self-loathing protagonist of Girls (who is incapable of basic adult responsibilities and relationships) compared to the self-possessed, charming and wholesome characters in Austen’s novels. This is just part of the Left’s effort to co-opt the greatness of Austen in order to elevate Dunham’s mediocrity.
Pride & Prejudice and Persuasion are my favorites, too.
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